Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It

Jason Finch is Associate Professor, English Language and Literature, at Åbo Akademi University. Previous books include E. M. Forster and English Place (2011), Deep Locational Criticism (2016) and, as co-editor, Literary Second Cities (2017). A founder member of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS), from 2019-22 he is Principal Investigator for Finland on the project 'Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities' (PUTSPACE), funded by the ERC's HERA programme. Jason's literary urban research interests include London, housing representations and public transport.